Regrets

The working group reviewed the
summary of issues for Guideline 2.2 and responded to issues and proposals up
to proposal 593.

Action Items

Guideline 2.2 Discussion

Proposal 626a - accepted

Proposal 626b preferred to Proposal 683, since rules of competition may
not be realtime events. But proposal 626a seems like the best of the
proposals.

Discussion of time limits, and how much time the user should be given to
extend the time timit. You'd really like the user to have at least 10 seconds
after he has finished reading and understanding the message.
Should use short messages to warn about time limits, because it takes time to
read those as well. Can put that in techniques.
Definition: The time limit is part of an activity where timing is an
essential part of the activity. The time limit can not be extended without
invalidating the outcome.

Reviewed John Slatin's proposed rewording of the success criteria.

After much discussion about what to say about on-line tests, it was
decided not to single it out in a separate item but to include it in the
competitive activity item.

Proposal 593 - to be moved to Level 2 and reconsidered.

Level 2 success criteria:

Proposal 629a preferred to proposal 629. Blinking that lasts less
than 3 seconds is permitted. Defined blinking content to be
content that turns on and off between 0.5 and 3 times per second

Realized that we need to extend 2.1 (keyboard access) to include
author-provided accessibility features (such as controlling moving
content).

Accepted modified form of Proposal 628b

Revised Parts of Guideline 2.2

Checkpoint
2.2

"Allow users to control time
limits on their reading or interaction unless specific real-time events or
rules of competition make such control impossible."

Success Criteria issues and
proposals

Level 1, success criteria
1:

1. content is designed so that
time limits are not an essential part of interaction, or at least one of the
following is true for each time limit:

*the user is
allowed to deactivate the time limit; or

*the user is
allowed to adjust the time limit over a wide range which is at least ten
times the length of the default setting; or

*the user is warned
before time expires, allowed to extend the time limit with a simple action
such as “hit any key”, and given at
least 10 seconds to respond; o

*the time limit is
a real-time event (for example an auction), and no alternative to the time
limit is possible; o

*the time limit is
part of a activity where timing is an essential part of the activity (for
example competitive gaming or time based testing) and time limits cannot be
extended further without invalidating the activity;

Level 2 success criteria #
1

The user is allowed to turn
off content that blinks for more than 3 seconds